Arrrggh! Let's help Time with Pachy's "voodoo science"

Yep! wrong reports do become rather persistent.
But I am wondering how many WUWT readers poked their thumbs into their eyes to avoid seeing the 20-30 metres of glacier recession per year. Can’t swear to it but that sounded like local knowledge.
Is this consistent with the revised IPCC figures? Assuming the 35 years claim was a displaced decimal point and the glaciers will be gone in 350 years that points to glaciers that are 350x20m long. In other words 7 km or longer. Sounds about right to me.

From LazyTeenager on November 16, 2011 at 2:57 pm:

But I am wondering how many WUWT readers poked their thumbs into their eyes to avoid seeing the 20-30 metres of glacier recession per year. Can’t swear to it but that sounded like local knowledge.

Retreat of glaciers since 1850

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The Little Ice Age was a period from about 1550 to 1850 when the world experienced relatively cooler temperatures compared to the present. Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed substantially. Glacial retreat slowed and even reversed temporarily, in many cases, between 1950 and 1980 as a slight global cooling occurred. Since 1980, a significant global warming has led to glacier retreat becoming increasingly rapid and ubiquitous, so much so that some glaciers have disappeared altogether, and the existence of a great number of the remaining glaciers of the world is threatened. (…)
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So as the world warmed since the LIA, the glaciers retreated. During the 1950-80 global cooling the glaciers were recovering. Then the warming resumed, and the glaciers were retreating again.
Plus don’t forget of examples like the one on Kilimanjaro, which are sublimating away due to land use changes resulting in drier air around the peak. And the effects of soot on glaciers as well.
And now global warming has gone on vacation, looks like it’ll be awhile until it comes back. So now we wait and see if the glaciers recover again.
Ah, and I see where the article in the post got that “mountain tsunami” stuff from:

With the retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas, a number of glacial lakes have been created. A growing concern is the potential for Glacial Lake Outburst Floods—researchers estimate 20 glacial lakes in Nepal and 24 in Bhutan pose hazards to human populations should their terminal moraines fail. One glacial lake identified as potentially hazardous is Bhutan’s Raphstreng Tsho, which measured 1.6 km (0.99 mi) long, .96 m (0.00096 km) wide and was 80 m (260 ft) deep in 1986. By 1995 the lake had swollen to a length of 1.94 km (1.21 mi), 1.13 km (0.70 mi) in width and a depth of 107 m (351 ft). In 1994 a GLOF from Luggye Tsho, a glacial lake adjacent to Raphstreng Tsho, killed 23 people downstream.

Calling such an outburst a “tsunami” is unnecessary hyperbole, and given what happened just this year to Japan it’s arguably insensitive. Still it is a potential problem, which has been recognized thus actions to prevent loss of life can be taken. However as Peer-Reviewed Climate Science™ has said global warming and its effects will continue for a thousand years even if we shut down civilization and all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions now, reducing our emissions is not anything resembling a viable solution.

Brandon says:
November 16, 2011 at 10:24 am
“What difference does it make if it is 2035 or 2100? If its a problem its a problem no matter when the consequence will be fully realized.”
So, you’re saying the time scale doesn’t matter? With that in mind:
In a billion years or so the sun will have expanded and the earth will be heated to destruction, the ultimate global warming. Don’t you think that’s a far greater threat than melting glaciers? (ignoring the fact that many glaciers are growing). Don’t you think the UN should establish a scientific panel to access this alarming development? If it’s a problem it’s a problem no matter when the consequence will be fully realized.
Chris

Interstellar Bill says:
November 16, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Al Gore, please bring snow to the Durban fest,
the obvious objective of this and other current propaganda.
I’m afraid that’s beyond even his power to screw things up.

@John in L du B,
Stick to climate and don’t lump everyone that opposes genetically modified organisms/foods and irradiation of food together with green fanatics. The risks of GMO are only just beginning to be known, but include ulcers, allergies, reduced fertility, stunted growth, aggressiveness never before seen in certain species, and the wonderful eternal, internal toxicity caused by BT overtaking intestinal flora and continuing to produce pesticide in the gut.
I’d tell you to keep your GMO to yourself, but that wouldn’t be fair to others nearby you, since it can’t be contained, as studies of primitive corn species in the highlands of Mexico have shown.